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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Rig's 700th game, and another date with the Blackhawks incoming · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: The way that Oscar Fisker Mullguard played in preseason. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was John Forsland who called him Dentty Moore, just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a nice meat and potatoes stew right, like
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna work hard for you. And I think he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, you were saying Mike that that he's pretty close.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Kracking this morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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  Speaker 2: Audio Network Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
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  Speaker 2: r FM.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 4: What you heard off the top is a conversation revolving
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  Speaker 4: around Oscar Fisker Mulguard called up down to the Kraken.
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  Speaker 4: Could his NHL debut be around the corner. We'll find
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  Speaker 4: out tonight when the kra Can take on the Chicago
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  Speaker 4: Blackhawks in Game two of the four game road trip.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Benton with you for Cracking this morning on a Thursday,
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  Speaker 4: November twenty yet, Well, the Kracking getting closer to the
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  Speaker 4: Thanksgiving checkpoint with a pretty solid record. This Stan's currently
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  Speaker 4: nine to five and five twenty three points on the season.
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  Speaker 4: And this is how type matters are right now. They're
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  Speaker 4: technical a point out of a playoffs spot, but only
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  Speaker 4: three points back a first place Sannaheim in the Pacific Division,
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  Speaker 4: a ton of parody and a ton still yet to
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  Speaker 4: be resolved here for this season as they stand one
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  Speaker 4: point back of Chicago the Blackhawks ten to five and
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  Speaker 4: four with twenty four points on the campaign. Well, have
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  Speaker 4: a conversation with Blackhawks radio voice John Widaman coming up
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  Speaker 4: later on here. The evolution of Connor Bedard now wearing
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  Speaker 4: a letter on his jersey, A couple of familiar faces
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  Speaker 4: producing for Chicago, and what have we learned from the
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  Speaker 4: first matchup when the Kraken beat the Blackhawks three to
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  Speaker 4: one earlier this month at Climate Pledge Arena. The rematch
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  Speaker 4: is coming up. John Widaman coming up as well here
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  Speaker 4: on Kraken this morning. Before we get to him, here's
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  Speaker 4: al matters turned out last time out, with the Kraken
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  Speaker 4: facing Detroit in the opener of the four game road
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  Speaker 4: trip and looking to build early on.
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  Speaker 2: Nanler Stevens at far circle.
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  Speaker 5: Now Tolben, it's down his shot for the slot, pit balls.
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  Speaker 3: Off the skate.
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  Speaker 5: Stevenson will save it, now tall that it fires, knocked down,
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  Speaker 5: loose puck in front.
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  Speaker 3: Aberly scores.
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  Speaker 5: Fifty eight seconds to play here in the period Jordan
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  Speaker 5: every finishes.
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  Speaker 3: Off the power play goal.
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  Speaker 5: It's a one nothing Seattle cracking lead.
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  Speaker 6: All starts with a one timer by Toll at the
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  Speaker 6: top of the circles, big rebounds giving up that. Maddy
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  Speaker 6: Beneer's finds. He knows he's got Everyly on the back door,
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  Speaker 6: slides it over to him, easy taping for the captain.
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  Speaker 6: One nothing practice.
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  Speaker 5: Raymond right circles shoots the card made the same, but
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  Speaker 5: it trickles through.
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  Speaker 3: They score.
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  Speaker 5: Joey the card got eighty five percent of that shot,
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  Speaker 5: but Raymond put too much English.
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  Speaker 1: On it and the wings tie the gate. He hands
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  Speaker 1: it off the far side.
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  Speaker 3: Patrick Kine will send it in behind the.
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  Speaker 5: Cracking goal Wrecker evds there for Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: It takes it away. Now back to the Airline. Shot
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  Speaker 3: Tech scores.
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  Speaker 5: Axel Sandean Pellica from the Airline.
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  Speaker 3: Nae Daniel sit in the tip.
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  Speaker 5: That's the first goal of his National Hockey League career.
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  Speaker 3: The Red Legs go back to back.
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  Speaker 6: They'll take a two to one lead.
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  Speaker 1: They'll hands it Al Kartzier.
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  Speaker 5: A cat to tolling it up top. Ker Evins shot
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  Speaker 5: tip twos. Riker Evans a left point shot redirected in
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  Speaker 5: in front and the Seattle Crackett retie the game twelve
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  Speaker 5: thirty four to play in the second twos a side.
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  Speaker 6: It was a great feed back to the point where
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  Speaker 6: Recor Everds was and he waited a beat for traffic
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  Speaker 6: to get in front. Caton was there, other line weights
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  Speaker 6: were there. It was double levels and screens and it
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  Speaker 6: beats Talbot on that blocker side. Download this game's tied
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  Speaker 6: at two.
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  Speaker 5: Wings on the power play, they scull.
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  Speaker 4: Emmett Fitty or to your final score as Detroit turning
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  Speaker 4: this game on it's head in period two with a
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  Speaker 4: pair of goals less than one minute apart. Lucas Raymond
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  Speaker 4: and Nate Danielson, who scored his first career NHL goal,
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  Speaker 4: put the Red Wings up to one just two to
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  Speaker 4: four into the second period, before Riker Evans tied things
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  Speaker 4: up and Emmett Finney eventually parking the game winning goal
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  Speaker 4: at ten fifty six a period two, tacked on by
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  Speaker 4: Dylan Larkin's empty net goal. So the crack and looking
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  Speaker 4: to get in a bounced back mode, reckoning with the
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  Speaker 4: matters that plagued them on Tuesday in Detroit. Here's the
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  Speaker 4: reaction after the game from crackenhead coach Lane Lambert.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think we had everyone going, and we can't
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  Speaker 7: afford to have anybody not going. So you know, we
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  Speaker 7: were we were okay in the game, but you know,
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  Speaker 7: not good enough to win the hockey game, you know,
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  Speaker 7: so you know there's certain things and certain reasons for that,
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  Speaker 7: but certainly I thought we could have been better.
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  Speaker 8: The Red Wings are very strong in the second period.
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  Speaker 8: Was there anything in particular that you saw from them
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  Speaker 8: to kind of explain and being able to score three there?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I knew, you know, we knew going in they
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  Speaker 7: had a they have like a plus sixty two shot
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  Speaker 7: differential in a second Gary before, you know, before the game,
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  Speaker 7: and you know, I think, you know, I think Joey
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  Speaker 7: probably wants the first one back. So that's one we
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  Speaker 7: don't box out on the second one, which you know
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  Speaker 7: goes into our net. You know, we get a great
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  Speaker 7: call from our video coach to overturn the third one
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  Speaker 7: and get you know, get a goal to tie the game,
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  Speaker 7: and then we make a mistake on the penalty kill
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  Speaker 7: that we can't make, you know what I mean, that's
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  Speaker 7: the bottom line. It's a mistake you can't make. It's
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  Speaker 7: not We're not asking anything else other than proper positioning.
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  Speaker 8: This is a team that's been able to battle back
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  Speaker 8: late in games, late in the third period as well.
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  Speaker 8: Were you happy with the effort that you saw lateness, Well, there's.
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  Speaker 7: Always effort, right. Our guys work, you know, they to me,
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  Speaker 7: they they work and they give it everything they have.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't think we shot the puck enough in the
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  Speaker 7: third period. Again, we're you know, we're playing against the
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  Speaker 7: team that's man on man in the d zone for
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  Speaker 7: the most part, and you got to find a way
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  Speaker 7: to put the puck to the net and and you know,
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  Speaker 7: find a way to get a greasy goal. And I
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  Speaker 7: don't think we attempted enough shots, not only in the
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  Speaker 7: third but all night long.
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  Speaker 6: Then you mentioned the video review.
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  Speaker 9: Did they call that right away and tell you they
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  Speaker 9: thought it was offside?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, they need a little bit of time to look
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  Speaker 7: at it, but you know they were fairly certain. They
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  Speaker 7: just wanted to see if they could get a different angle.
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  Speaker 3: Down the right wing.
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  Speaker 5: But ears up top, Alexiak steps in on the high slot,
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  Speaker 5: fires and scores shamei. Alesiak steps into a bomber just
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  Speaker 5: outside the high slot and with fourteen seventeen to player
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  Speaker 5: in the second. We're tied at one here in Vancouver.
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  Speaker 6: Me Alexiak, he's a big guy. Just mentioned him, keeping
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  Speaker 6: the puck in and he lets a rocket go from
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  Speaker 6: just inside the blue line like shooting a mashed potato
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  Speaker 6: gun at a mashed potato party.
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  Speaker 4: A big milestone around the corner for the big rig.
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  Speaker 4: Jamie Alexiak has played in six hundred and ninety nine
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  Speaker 4: games in his NHL career. Tonight is scheduled for game
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  Speaker 4: number seven hundred against the Chicago Blackhawks. With Alexiak still
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  Speaker 4: around as one of the original founding members on the
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  Speaker 4: Crack and roster, you could say, taking a course in
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  Speaker 4: the expansion draft back in twenty twenty one, and carving
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  Speaker 4: a role on the Crack and roster as a large,
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  Speaker 4: shutdown defenseman with skating and shop blocking capabilities. Here's Alexiyak
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  Speaker 4: in our conversation from Me the Kraken and of course
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  Speaker 4: Nightly during the first intermissions plus podcasted.
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  Speaker 3: Right here on the iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 4: App beginning with his meaning of playing in Seattle at
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  Speaker 4: this stage of his career.
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  Speaker 10: It's mental out to me. I think the city's really
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  Speaker 10: grown on me, and you see the passion of the fans.
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  Speaker 10: You know, when you drive around Seattle, you see cracking
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  Speaker 10: gear everywhere, and it's super special and we want to
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  Speaker 10: make sure that we show out for our fan base
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  Speaker 10: and bring a good product on the ice, and we're
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  Speaker 10: excited to get it going this year.
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  Speaker 3: What did you learn.
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  Speaker 4: About yourself at the stage of your career be able
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  Speaker 4: to get in eighty two games for the second straight year.
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  Speaker 10: It's like we talked about. I think nutrition is a
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  Speaker 10: big thing I kind of realized, especially in terms of
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  Speaker 10: longevity and consistency and just making sure day and day
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  Speaker 10: out you feel good, making sure you're eating the right things.
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  Speaker 10: And you know, oh, Wes, we have a pretty demanding
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  Speaker 10: travel schedule, so making sure that you're doing little things
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  Speaker 10: to kind of take care of your body, stretching, cold tubs,
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  Speaker 10: you know, all those well known routines, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 10: think again, you kind of have to just be aware
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  Speaker 10: of the schedule, be aware of what's coming up, and
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  Speaker 10: prepare accordingly.
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  Speaker 3: What's the best way to reset in the off season.
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  Speaker 10: Then, I mean be I say a little bit in
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  Speaker 10: Seattle and the offseason and just being outside is incredible.
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  Speaker 10: I think it's it really is. I guess grounding, you know,
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  Speaker 10: as what they call it when you're when you're out
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  Speaker 10: there on hikes or on the water, or you know,
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  Speaker 10: there's no shorte of things to do outside here. It's
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  Speaker 10: really tough to beat. So I think for me personally,
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  Speaker 10: that's a that's a key experience.
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  Speaker 4: Man, all right, cracking in Blackhawks coming up and help
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  Speaker 4: us get set. Our friend John Wademan joining us here
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  Speaker 4: longtime radio played by a play voice of the Blackhawks
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  Speaker 4: on WGN Radio in Chicago. Joining us now, John, Good
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  Speaker 4: to hear from you once again. Great to see you
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  Speaker 4: earlier this month.
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  Speaker 3: What I really.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate you me our stories ever at fits us in
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  Speaker 4: this boat. Our mutual friend James Stuckey as well. Back
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  Speaker 4: in the crack and equipment side, you can always appreciate
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  Speaker 4: the climb you go up the ladder before you reach
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  Speaker 4: the NHL. So what's your favorite story coming up in
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  Speaker 4: the minor league ranks?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I have a number of them, and Mike. For
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  Speaker 9: me to single one out, I think I would be
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  Speaker 9: not doing justice to any of the others. So what
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  Speaker 9: I will share with your listeners and you as a
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  Speaker 9: story that did involve Jim back when I was handling
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  Speaker 9: the radio for the Cincinnati Cyclones. I used to, you know,
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  Speaker 9: as a lot of broadcasters will, they're hockey people and
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  Speaker 9: they play hockey. And so Jim Stuckey used to host
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  Speaker 9: to skate over in a building called the Cincinnati Gardens.
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  Speaker 9: And the Cincinnati Gardens was an arena where the Cincinnati
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  Speaker 9: Mighty Ducks played. They had the head coach Mike Babcock there,
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  Speaker 9: and a number of players came through and got to
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  Speaker 9: the NHL. Well, stock were arranged for us to get
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  Speaker 9: the ice on a Monday night and we go over
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  Speaker 9: and we escaped. Didn't matter that I worked with the Cyclones.
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  Speaker 9: I was a guy that liked to play hockey, and
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  Speaker 9: it was a good group of guys, so we get together. Well,
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  Speaker 9: this particular night, I didn't have a shield on the
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  Speaker 9: helmet and I was in a corner taking the puck
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  Speaker 9: away from a friend of mine. And I turned to
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  Speaker 9: my right with the puck, and my friend really wasn't
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  Speaker 9: one of those guys that liked to skate to you
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  Speaker 9: in order to defend you. He liked to reach with
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  Speaker 9: his stick. So as I'm pulling the puck away, my
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  Speaker 9: friend reaches with his stick to try and lift my
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  Speaker 9: stick and take the puck back and he misses my stick,
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  Speaker 9: but he didn't miss my face and he hit me.
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  Speaker 9: He hit me in the upper lip, really on the
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  Speaker 9: on the flesh area where your mustache would grow, and
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  Speaker 9: cut me open. And I didn't know how bad the
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  Speaker 9: cut was. I just felt like somebody punched me in
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  Speaker 9: the face. And I'm going great, you know, now, I
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  Speaker 9: got a deal with this. You know, I just thought
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  Speaker 9: it was going to be something that I'll put a
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  Speaker 9: band aid onitor, you know, maybe a butterfly. I'll be fine.
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  Speaker 9: I skate over by the guy that was playing goal,
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  Speaker 9: who was a paramedic, and he looked at me and
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  Speaker 9: he goes, wait a minute, Wait a minute. He says,
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  Speaker 9: go right now, because he could see blood just coursing
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  Speaker 9: out of my mouth, and are you serious? Yeah, And
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  Speaker 9: I'm wearing a white I was wearing a white Montreal
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  Speaker 9: Canadians pattern sweater. It's just one that I had in
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  Speaker 9: my hockey bag. And I had blood from really the
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  Speaker 9: top of the D at the bottom of the D
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  Speaker 9: with D in the neck is all the way down
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  Speaker 9: to the bottom of the sweater. And my buddy, the goaltender, says,
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  Speaker 9: go right now because you probably have hit an artery.
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  Speaker 9: I'm going, oh great, So in my hockey equipment. All
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  Speaker 9: I could do, Mike is take my skates off. So
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  Speaker 9: I get into this guy's truck. I can't even remember
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  Speaker 9: who the guy was, but he took me to a
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  Speaker 9: local hospital about fifteen minutes away. And you know, I
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  Speaker 9: met my sneakers and I'm wearing my stinky, smelly hockey
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  Speaker 9: equipment over the front of my sweater. And you know what, Mike,
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  Speaker 9: I've always believed that life is short and you really
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  Speaker 9: have to have fun with it when you can. So
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  Speaker 9: there I am holding a towel to my face with
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  Speaker 9: blow all over my sweater. And I walk up to
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  Speaker 9: the desk where you know you sign in to get treated,
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  Speaker 9: and the lady looks up with me, and she's just
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  Speaker 9: a gas She Oh my, I said, Hi, I'm here
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  Speaker 9: selling girl Scout cookies and we'd like to know if
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  Speaker 9: you'd like to buy some ten Men's or some Lemon Square.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I couldn't resist. I just think to myself,
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  Speaker 9: you know, it's a moment in life. It could go
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  Speaker 9: bad or could make it go good. Have some fun
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  Speaker 9: with it.
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  Speaker 4: You need humors sometimes, even for extreme moments where life
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  Speaker 4: surprises certainly kick in. Well, absolutely, John, great to have you.
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  Speaker 4: The Blackhawks, Well people were saying maybe a couple of
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  Speaker 4: months ago, a surprise team. Well, right now, no surprise.
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  Speaker 4: Connor Bedard's good, that's obvious. First player, multiple hat tricks
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  Speaker 4: this season after the win over the Flames. So, as
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  Speaker 4: far as he's concerned, what's led to his better start
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  Speaker 4: and at this point now where he's earned a letter
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  Speaker 4: on his jersey.
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  Speaker 9: No, it's been a combination of factors, Mike, and I'll
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  Speaker 9: start with his off season training. After the season ended
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  Speaker 9: last year, he decided not to go to the World Championships.
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  Speaker 9: He was invited, but he opted not to go because
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  Speaker 9: the kid was mentally exhausted. Mentally exhausted, not physically, he's
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  Speaker 9: only a nineteen year old kid, but mentally he was fried.
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  Speaker 9: He needed to get away. So what he did was
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  Speaker 9: he went back home to Vancouver and he hired a
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  Speaker 9: different strength and conditioning coach, a guy that had a
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  Speaker 9: different philosophy. And this guy was going to make him
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  Speaker 9: stronger and faster. Sounds like the Bionic Man, but he
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  Speaker 9: basically almost turned into that. And Connor worked hard all
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  Speaker 9: summer long I'm pretty sure he got some vacation in
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  Speaker 9: there somewhere, but I would imagine he didn't get too
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  Speaker 9: far away from a stationary bike or a weight set,
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  Speaker 9: because when he showed up for training camp, like he
• 14:42
  Speaker 9: was sculpted, and he was built like an NFL linebacker,
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  Speaker 9: albeit a short one. But the kid he was, he
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  Speaker 9: was ripped. I mean, he's really really strong, and I'm
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  Speaker 9: thinking to myself, he might be too strong to be
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  Speaker 9: able to handle the tuck effectively move in and out
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  Speaker 9: of people. He's gonna have a strong shot, for sure,
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  Speaker 9: because he always has. But you know, is this going
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  Speaker 9: to affect his coordination or his balance or his puck Hammick. Well,
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  Speaker 9: we found out quickly it didn't. It enhanced it. In fact,
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  Speaker 9: he'd worked on his speed in the summer as well,
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  Speaker 9: and the finished product was a kid that came back
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  Speaker 9: with a little bit of a burr under his saddle. Anyway,
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  Speaker 9: and somebody that I think had the attitude of I'm
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  Speaker 9: going to show you guys how good I could be,
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  Speaker 9: and he's in the process of doing that right now.
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  Speaker 9: He's among the league leaders in scoring in the National
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  Speaker 9: Hockey League. Two guys names you may have heard of
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  Speaker 9: him McKennon, and who's that other guy named David Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: yeah yeah, But it was he was the off season training.
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  Speaker 9: Might not to interrupt. It was the off season training.
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  Speaker 9: Plus the fact that he has been encouraged, largely by
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  Speaker 9: Blackhawk captain Nick Felino, to go ahead and shoot the
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  Speaker 9: puck when he feels he could score, instead of being
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  Speaker 9: a little bit deffer to the veterans on the team, No, Connor,
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  Speaker 9: shoot the puck. If you've got the shot, shoot the puck.
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  Speaker 9: And he has well.
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  Speaker 4: The players he's out scoring right now include the likes
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  Speaker 4: of Mark Scheif, Lee, William Nielander, David Pasternak, Leon Drisidelkle.
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  Speaker 3: Mccarr, Jack eichel More and more.
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  Speaker 4: Connor Bedard certainly has a arrived What about the supporting
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  Speaker 4: cast around him and a couple of guys who are
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  Speaker 4: familiar to Seattle and Ryan Donado and Andre Berakowski. What
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  Speaker 4: have you made of their games so far this year
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  Speaker 4: and where they're at right now? Chip again here with
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  Speaker 4: this Plackhawks lineup.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I'm glad you asked, because one of my favorite
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  Speaker 9: guys on the team is a guy named Ryan Denato. Ryan,
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  Speaker 9: I can go on and on about what a great
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  Speaker 9: kidding I think he is. Right, I was happy to
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  Speaker 9: say that he scored for the first time in eight
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  Speaker 9: games last night, and it was a typical Ryan Donato goal.
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  Speaker 9: In the right spot at the right time, grabbed a
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  Speaker 9: rebound without hesitation, snap It's in the back of the net.
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  Speaker 9: And hopefully that's a portunate of good things to come
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  Speaker 9: for Ryan because as you know, Mike, when he played
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  Speaker 9: in Seattle once he put one in number two, number three,
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  Speaker 9: and number four, number five, maybe number us up to
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  Speaker 9: eight or nine was sure to follow. So I'm expecting
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  Speaker 9: Ryan to make that contribution. Andre Burikowski, from my money,
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  Speaker 9: has been one of the better surprises of the year.
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  Speaker 9: You know how greatly skilled he was, you know how
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  Speaker 9: he could find open ice and create We've seen all
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  Speaker 9: of that and Ben some with the Blackhawks this season,
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  Speaker 9: and we interviewed him last night. We actually interviewed him
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  Speaker 9: and between periods and you know, asking him about ask
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  Speaker 9: him about the game and what it was going to
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  Speaker 9: take to beat the Calvary Flames, something along those lines.
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  Speaker 9: So simple question, and Andre immediately shifted the conversation to
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  Speaker 9: his accountability. I need to be better I need to
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  Speaker 9: work harder, I need to make more things happen. And
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: when I heard that, I became a big fan of
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  Speaker 9: him because not only is he holding himself accountable, but
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  Speaker 9: simply by doing that, the other guys in the dressing
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  Speaker 9: room are going to see that that's the way to
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  Speaker 9: comport them themselves and that can only have a positive
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  Speaker 9: effect on this team. So both x krack and it's
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  Speaker 9: your loss, it's our game. But hey, life goes on, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly, change the scenery is always part of the equation,
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  Speaker 4: no exception here right now, joined by John Wideman here
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  Speaker 4: radio voice of the Blackhawks on WGN Radio in Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: I want to get to Captain Nick Felino out now
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  Speaker 4: four weeks blocked to shot off his left hand. So,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's the penalty kill, bottom six presidents or just
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  Speaker 4: playing leadership, where's the biggest void the Blackhawks had to
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  Speaker 4: fill in his absence?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it starts in the dressing room, obviously, because you
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  Speaker 9: know Nick, Nick, we joked last year that because the
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: way the team got so young, all of a sudden,
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: I said, Nick, you kind of went from being the
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: big brother to the dad, and that brought a chuckle
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  Speaker 9: out of him, and you know, he accepted the situation.
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: He accepts, you know, his age and his position and
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  Speaker 9: really how his position is defined. He knows that with
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: you know, the success and the growth of these younger players,
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  Speaker 9: that's going to diminish his ice time. So he tries
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: to make the most out of every second that he's
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  Speaker 9: on there. But what I've noticed about Nick is that
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  Speaker 9: he is like a father figure. And I have not
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  Speaker 9: seen him scold anybody. Okay, I have not seen him,
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  Speaker 9: you know, telling guy, hey, straighten up, or you're going
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  Speaker 9: to face this or that or whatever the way. Dad can't.
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  Speaker 9: But I have seen him take kids under his wing
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  Speaker 9: and say I'm going to work with you on this
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  Speaker 9: because I think you can be great at that, or
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: don't do this at this particular moment because this is
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  Speaker 9: what's going to happen. And he's also been a really
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: good listener to the kids and a great counselor. And
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  Speaker 9: there's such value in that. Mike, I can't begin to
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  Speaker 9: tell you. Kids are coming into the National Hockey League,
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: they're scared. Understandably, they're a little bit scared. I mean,
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: the NHL is what they dreamed of playing in. But
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: once they get there, realization falls on them that oh
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: my gosh, I may be in over my head and
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: a guy like Nick Fillino can smooth all of that out,
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  Speaker 9: get them to turn their their attitude from one of
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: fear into one of confidence and go out and play.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I could go on and on about Nick Fellino,
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: and I personally hope that Nick will continue to play
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: because I think he's a tremendous captain. In times, somebody
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: will succeed, but I think he's a tremendous captain. He
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: is a great person, a great community person. I could
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: talk as usibly as you could tell about Nick Fillino,
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: but for my money, there isn't a better captain than
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: the Western Conference.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to the first matchup, yere finally between these
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: two teams that was back earlier this month on November three,
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Joey de Courd opposite Arvid Solderbloom Andre Berakowski have the
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: only black Hawk's goal Jamie alexiak Mann eveniers Jordan Everly
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  Speaker 4: on the crack inside. John to you, what did we
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: learn about these two teams?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Had to add? First matchup.
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  Speaker 9: A contrasting styles. As far as I can see your head,
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: Coach Lane Lambert, tough Saskatchewan guy getting his getting his
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  Speaker 9: chance now after paying his dues a little bit with
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: the Leafs last year. If you will that that's you know,
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  Speaker 9: I'm saying that tug in cheek. I don't mean that sincerely,
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: but I think Blaine is a is a great young man.
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: I think he's an underrated good coach. I think he
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: he understands the game and people and his his schemes
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: with the krack and now keep in mind, I've only
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: seen the crackt one time live. I've seen him on
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: TV a few times, but it appears they play more
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: of a defensive style and when there's an opportunity for offense,
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: they go as hard as they can. The Blackhawks they
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: defend as well. They defend their own end of the ice.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: I think pretty well. They've limited a lot of goals,
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: a lot of goals scoring and chances. Although the the
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: shots would tell you differently, but the way that they play,
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: they try to discourage any shots from the key areas well.
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: That's kind of an ongoing thing. But one thing we
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: have seen with the Blackhawks this year, not in Seattle
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: because they only scored one goal, but for almost every
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: other game they scored at least three goals a game,
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: and goal scoring doesn't appear to be a problem this year.
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: Unlike the last couple of years, when you couldn't get
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: the Blackhawks, you could buy a third goal for this team,
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: and they lost so many one goal games because they
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: couldn't get that extra goal. Well, this year they're winning
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: those one goal games and they're getting points out of games.
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: So really I'm a little surprised by where they are
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: in the standings, But with the way that they've played
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: and the way that they bought in the Jeff Lashal system,
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: I don't think we should be. They're in a playoff spot.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: And they want to keep it just one point apart.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: For these two teams, it is due to be a
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: collision coming up at United States.
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  Speaker 3: John.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate this. Thanks so much, have a great call. See
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: you around the bend soon once again. Hey, the minor
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: league stories you have, I can't wait for the book.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: It might rival the Grapes of Wrath. Thanks again, my friend.
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  Speaker 9: Well, if I ever sit down and write a book, Mike,
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: I'll swinge in there somehow, and I'll let everybody know
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: the PostScript and that story about the situation in Cincinnati.
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: Jim Stuckey put a shield on my helmet. I know
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: Don Cherry would be very unhappy with me, but it
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: saves the rest of my face. I can't tell you
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: how many times.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's great, protect the money maker. John Wideman joining
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  Speaker 4: us here. John, thank you very much. Anytime it can
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: get a James Stucky story in on Cracking this morning.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: It's always a good day again, John Wideman with US Radio,
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  Speaker 4: voice of the black Hawks on WGN Radio in Chicago.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Always great to have him on with us for cracking
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: this morning. Well about these two teams and cracking again
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: heading into matchup number two against Chicago, owning the upper
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: hand largely in this series with a record of nine
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: to four and they won five of the past six meetings.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Matty Veneers and Ellie Tolnen a pair of Kraken players
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: looking to extend their point streaks. They're riding three game
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: runs right now heading into this contest. And besides Connor Bdard, well,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: you gotta be on the lookout here for the likes
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: of Tyler Bertuzzi nine goals in sixteen games at second
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: right now on the Blackawks and tied with Andre Burikowski
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: for second on Chicago and scoring at fifteen points, but
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: well behind the superstar pace of Badard.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Twenty nine points in nineteen games.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Louis Crevier, by the way, the hottest among Chicago's scorers
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: here when you count point streaks. He is riding a
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: four game run with five assists in that span. Heading
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: into this evening. On the Craken injury update side, Jared
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: mccan still making progress. He is on the trip. It
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: still remains on injured reserve with the lower body ailment. Meanwhile,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: same diagnosis remains for Compocaco and goaltender Matt Murray, who
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: are out with lower body ailman's. They two are also
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: on injured reserve, and we'll see if that weighs into anything.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: With Oscar Fisker, Mulgard potentially said to make his NHL
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: debut once again called up here for this evening's game
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: on the Crack and Roster. So it's the Kraken trying
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: to bounce back in Jamie Alexiak's potential seven hundredth career
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: NHL game this evening as a Crack In take on Chicago,
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  Speaker 4: opening up at five pm Pacific time from United Center.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: We're on Air four thirty again for all the action,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: I'll join you from network Central. Everga Fitzu al Kadisky
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: have the call from the booth in Chicago. All across
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  Speaker 4: the Global Credit Union Kraken Audio Network. Big thank you
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: to John Wideman for joining us. Enjoy this game.
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  Speaker 3: If for cracking this morning, I'm Mike Benton.
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